Sentences with phrase «national education summits»

Achieve serves as a significant national voice for quality in standards - based reform and regularly convenes governors, CEOs and other influential leaders at National Education Summits and other gatherings to sustain support for higher standards and achievement for all of America's schoolchildren.

When Gates made this remark in 2005 at a national education summit in Washington...

The one - day meeting, billed as a «bipartisan national education summit,» was organized by Sen. James M. Jeffords, R - Vt., who chairs the Senate Subcommittee on Education, Arts, and Humanities, Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley, and former Secretary Terrel H. Bell.

The math proficiency of 8th graders from the nation's top - ranked states — Iowa, North Dakota, and Minnesota — is comparable to that of students from the best - performing nations, such as Taiwan and South Korea, reports a federal study to be released this week at the national education summit.

Mr. Patton, a Democrat, will be responsible for setting the tone and direction for the Washington - based organization's upcoming year, including finding ways to achieve the goals that grew out of the national education summit held in Charlottesville, Va., in 1989.

The «entity,» as it has been called since the idea emerged in March at the national education summit, would provide funding for technical assistance and be a source for states and school districts trying to set rigorous academic standards and conduct related assessments of student achievement.

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, who has donated $ 1,000 to each of the reform candidates, not only endorsed the board at his national education summit earlier this month, but also urged the crowd to contribute.

Not exact matches

The National Council for Tertiary Education (NCTE), in collaboration with the Ministry of Education is organising the summit with the support of Trust Africa, Senegal.

A three - day national summit would be held from Wednesday, November 2, to draft a National Vision and Plan for Tertiary Ednational summit would be held from Wednesday, November 2, to draft a National Vision and Plan for Tertiary EdNational Vision and Plan for Tertiary Education.

The summit, which was organized by the Government - University - Industry Research Roundtable (GUIRR) of the National Academies of Science and held in Washington, D.C., 11 to 12 November 2002, included representatives from government agencies, disciplinary societies, and several education and science organizations who presented a litany of policy prescriptions and recommendations on the educational and societal forces that affect the experiences and expectations of the nation's future scientists and engineers.

The National Standards Review Team accomplished, at least in large part, what the nation's governors and many business leaders called for at an education summit last...

The goal of the summit, a joint effort with the National Commission to Prevent Infant Mortality and the Washington Business Group on Health, is to bring together leaders from business and education to discuss the importance of children's health, the A.A.P. said.

This panel discussion on politics attracted a standing - room - only crowd at last week's national summit on education reform organized by the Foundation for Excellence in Eeducation reform organized by the Foundation for Excellence in EducationEducation.

While President Bush's education summit and school reform in general have been in the news in the United States, Britain has launched its own massive, national program of school improvement.

In interviews last week, educators for the most part gave the proposed «goals 2000: educate America act» high marks for continuing the focus on national standards begun at the 1989 education summit between President Bush and the nation's governors.

Representative Williams, Democrat of Montana, is the House sponsor of the bill calling for the national summit conference on education.

NBC's Education Nation 2012 begins next month and will culminate with the event's national summit in New York City in September, according to details released by the network.

Then, in 1989, the governors and President George H.W. Bush held the nation's first education summit in Charlottesville, Virginia, and formulated national education goals for America.

In a speech to the National Indian Education Association's legislative summit in Washington last week, NIEA President Ryan Wilson said he wanted Congress to back legislation designed to help preserve American Indian languages.

But the document outlining objectives at the close of the summit was rife with language now common in the education reform debate — accountability, competitiveness, readiness, and national goals.

Includes the national education goals and the joint statement from the historic Charlottesville education summit...

This summit resulted in the establishment of six broad educational goals to be reached by the year 2000 (National Education Goals Panel, 1991).

Following the summit, national education goals were established that addressed school readiness; school completion; student achievement and citizenship; teacher education and professional development; mathematics and science; adult literacy and lifelong learning; safe, disciplined, and alcohol - and drug - free schools; and parental participation.

A part of that experience was supporting the Department of Education (and other national organizations that were a part of the delegation) in its commitments - one being to create a national summit on the teaching profession here in the United States.

-- Tony Wagner EdTechTeacher will host the first national iPads in education summit, bringing together educators, researchers, tech directors, principals, school leaders and industry partners to identify best practices for integrating iPads into education.

Following an «education summit» in 1989, President George H. W. Bush and all 50 governors sought to move the nation forward with «America 2000,» which articulated six national education goals.

Results of the 2002 summit included seven conclusions based on the deliberations of representatives from the Association for Science Teacher Education, the Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators, the College and University Faculty Assembly (CUFA) of the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS), the National Council of Teachers of English, Conference on English Education, the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education and the International Society for Technology in Education.

Indianapolis, Ind. — Education secretary Betsy DeVos addressed a crowd of several hundred this evening at a national policy summit, introducing the basic elements of President Donald Trump's proposed school - choice agenda, which she called the most ambitious in history.

NIEER Founder and Senior Co-Director W. Steven Barnett Ph.D. presented research on different preschool funding schema drawing from national models, highlighting cost of quality and state education infrastructures, and effective state support systems during the Council of Chief State School Officers summit in January 2018.

Also the national summit on the teaching — National Summit on Teacher Leadership I mentioned that came out of the international one was very much AFT, NEA, CCSO and the Department of Ednational summit on the teaching — National Summit on Teacher Leadership I mentioned that came out of the international one was very much AFT, NEA, CCSO and the Department of EdNational Summit on Teacher Leadership I mentioned that came out of the international one was very much AFT, NEA, CCSO and the Department of Education.

Last week the AFT, NEA, CCSO and Department of Education sponsored a national summit on teacher leadership.

For example, Bob Wise, a former governor of West Virginia who is now president of the Alliance for Excellent Education, said at a national leadership summit in February 2012 that online learning is an «imperative for meeting those challenges such as providing sufficient opportunities for students to gain the knowledge and skills they need to succeed in the global economy; dealing with budget deficits that are forcing program cuts; and ensuring students» access to high - quality teachers, curricula, and learning experiences.

That year, when President George H.W. Bush convened an education summit of the nation's governors, it was a little - known Arkansas Democrat named Bill Clinton who drafted a bipartisan set of national goals for the year 2000 («first in the world» in mathematics, for starters).

Achieve was founded at the 1996 National Education Summit and has sponsored subsequent Summits in 1999, 2001 and 2005.

These efforts coalesced into a national strategy after a 1989 bipartisan summit in Charlottesville, Virginia, between governors and President George H. W. Bush, where leaders looked to standards as the first step toward achieving lofty national education goals.2

Perhaps most heartening to me at the GEII summit was the refrain we heard from national - level education ministers and policy makers around the world: that national policy makers are beginning to catch up to the need for establishing standards for social - emotional competencies in education.

Let me tell you how seriously this administration is taking international education — the summit (arranged by Fran Holuba of the Global Engagement / NSC Press, National Security Council) was packed with senior officials speaking on the importance of study abroad, international education, student mobility, and more.

At the National Academies summit exploring ways to use entertainment technologies to foster science education, Will Wright, the mind behind The Sims and Spore, gave a warp - speed talk laying out why game design has great potential in this arena.